'Here we have a system in which liquid water is moving; Let's just get at the physics of it' (Penman 1965)

Hydrology Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 727-736

  Beven, Keith ^a,b,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epistemic uncertainties; Hydrological physics; Hypothesis testing; Measurement scales; Preferential flows; Representative elementary watershed (REW)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLOW OF WATER; INTEGRATION TESTING;

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEASUREMENT SCALE; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY WATERSHED;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84919880677     PISSN: 19989563     EISSN: 22247955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2014.130     Document Type: Article

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